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Nikkatsu is most famous for making porno movies.. this is how wiki works .. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.212.105.197 (talk) 06:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Etymology of "Roman Porno"

In Nikkatsu's own english language catalogues (e.g., Nikkatsu Selected Films, various volumes, published by Nikkatsu Video Films) the phrase "Nikkatsu's Romantic Pornographic Films" is what the company themselves uses to refer to to the listed "Roman Porno" films (as well as the term Roman Porno). My take is that Nikkatsu's explanation is the default.

Author and Japanese cult film historian Jasper Sharp, in "Behind the Pink Curtain" 2008 (ISBN 97819032S4530) first (?) conjectured that "a more convincing explanation" is that it was derived from the French term "roman pornographique", without providing any other support for that claim. Jasper doesn't mention who will be more convinced by his explanation. Before that Donald Richie, in his 2001 book "100 years of Japanese Film A Concise History" (ISBN 9784770029959), does point out the french use of the word roman as a lucky gentrification but does not suggest that to be the origin of the term. In fact this follows the sentence where he explicitly states that "Roman comes from Romantic".

At JFDB.jp, Adam Sutherland, translating to English a March 2024 essay by Jinshi Fujii, Professor of Film Studies in Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, https://jfdb.jp/en/column/2024/11/Japans_Studio_System_A_Short_History) states as a given "derived from the French term roman pornographique" however this is the translator's addition. Fujii's original Japanese only presents the term, without explanation, as 「日活ロマンポルノ」or Nikkatsu Roman Porno.

The french connection is later mentioned in two high profile Nikkatsu Roman Porno articles, in Dazed (06/02/2024) and Salon (JULY 3, 2017), but neither of those embrace the theory, and both mention a portmanteau of romance/romantic and pornography. They may have gotten the idea from Sharp's book (or even Richie's) and included it for completeness. Parsons nose (talk) 02:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]